Dr Burkitt was born in Dublin and died in Belmullet.
He was a general practitioner and an amateur ornithologist.
He donated to Trinity College one of the last great Auks sighted in Ireland. This was recently refurbished.
I am helping a friend to research this fellow who is her 2 x g-grandfather and looking for a photo or image of him.
Any suggestions as to where we might find this would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Kerry
Hello Kerry, I would start with Mayo Library Local Studies and see if they have anything, http://www.mayolibrary.ie/en/LocalStudies/ you should mention the years involved etc otherwise the search period will bring too many hits. There is a subscription site British Newspaper Archive which is probably best pre 1921. I searched for Belmullet History online and got a number of hits and I notice there and on the library site there are a number of books written by Birkett ladies in more recent times.
I assume when he donated to Trinity it was to the Museum Building (beautiful inside by the way) there was a book published last year on the history of the Museum Building and is available here https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2019/the-museum-building-of-trinity-college-dublin/ you could email the college to see if it is in it or the publishers.
A longer shot is the College of General Practitioners in Ireland, https://www.icgp.ie/ I doubt this will be fruitful though as not sure when it was incorporated. The Irish Times have an online archive from 1857, again subscription site, can join for a day or a week etc https://www.irishtimes.com/
There are also a number of Mayo Facebook pages on genealogy and history so you could search for some and join and ask the question.
Good Luck,
Pat
Thank you so much Pat, for all that information.
I have passed it on to my friend and I am sure she will be delighted. I don't think she has joined this site yet, so I include her thanks as well.
Cheers, Kerry